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Who: Haruka+Mirai
Where: Mount Rokko
When: Sunday April 23rd, day
What: Biking and Social link GO~

Several days after the idea, Haruka met up with Imaizumi downtown for that trip to Mount Rokko. Getting there was a bit difficult, between the traffic and noise occasionally drowning out Haruka's headphone but once they got out of the downtown area, it wasn't too bad. Noise died down, a pleasant breeze blew by (or that might just have been the freer space), and she started hearing differences in the road as the wheels pass over.

She adjusted her headphone again, memorizing the instructions it rattled off, before turning to the volume down. Turning her head in Imaizumi's direction, she asked,

"Holding up, senpai?"

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"Slow?" Mirai asked.

It was him. By now he was rather regretting this bike ride up the hill. It was hard having to babysit people. But then a wide grin spread over his face. How fun it was - fun! - to have somebody who responded to his teasing.

"As far as I'm concerned, you're blind, right? You should've been listening out for me better. So you shouldn't be casting aspersions, Kiri-chan."

"Yep, my bad. I should have used my enhanced senses to ascertain exactly where you were," Haruka replied easily. The ground was starting to shift again, leveling out. Her headphone related to her that the waterfall wasn't too far away, over the hill. She listened for more instructions, committing them to memory, before she turned her head back again. She continued, with a bit of a smirk,

"But I'm blind, not slow. Meep, meep."

And then she suddenly sped up, following the level road and heading towards the path downhill.

"Oh no," Mirai drawled. "Wait. Don't leave me."

He picked up his pace and sped after her up the hill till the ground changed and he began coasting down it. He followed her round a corner. He followed her some distance up and gave himself another view of the city. Then followed her to the area down the bottom of the hill and stopped alongside her in an area of natural beauty he hadn't seen before. This place, unlike the streets of Kobe and the spires of Tokyo, had various natural sounds, places to dismount and a rushing stream of water that could be heard somewhere close. He tied his bike to one of these railings and hurried off into the wilderness.

Haruka slowed down as the ground started downhill. The road quickly passed under her, and she couldn't help but stop to enjoy the feel of the wind. It felt good, after the trek uphill, and she allowed herself peddling for it.

The bottom of the hill felt nice too. She waited for Imaizumi, looking content as she waited. It wasn't silent but it was a different, less obnoxious set of sounds compared to the city. They didn't sound too far away from the falls either...

She followed Imaizumi's lead and locked her bike to one of the railings. She took a while longer to get her cane out of her bag and to take a sip of her bottle bottle before following after him.

She called out,

"Ever been to anywhere like this, senpai?"

"I can't say I have."

Mirai's voice came from some way away, and was absent-minded as he focused on the flowing water in front of him. The stream was churning as the water flowed over and around rocks in a hurry, causing the stream to turn white in parts. Then he was paying more attention to leaning over the rocks that made up the side of this natural waterfall. Whose noise was coming from overhead.

It did not look like a place where he was capable of being disturbed.

"Guess that makes sense? Tokyo doesn't sound like it'd have much for wilderness," Haruka replied. "Kyoto has places like the Torii shrine but it doesn't feel as nice and all those steps just suck to climb."

She took out her headphone and put it back with her piPod and started feeling the path with her cane. The path felt mostly clear but it became rocky as she walked closer to the riverbed. The water ran quickly, falling over in what sounded like short drop and when she stuck her cane in, it didn't feel particularly deep where they were.

Eventually, she came to where her cane lightly hit a shoe. Right at the edge of the riverbed.

Haruka stared for a moment. Before a little smirk worked it's way across her face.

And then she gave Imaizumi a light push.

At this point, Mirai's nose had almost been in the water. Now the rest of his face was clean - and wet. His hands and sleeves were drenched in river-water. His mouth was full of it. He pulled back from the stream and shook his hair out as if he was a dog.

There followed an anticipatory silence. Thoughts were getting darker behind his eyes, which hid them with a spark of mischief as the sodden collar of his shirt aggravated him - and he spat some of the water at her.

"You're such an ass."

Haruka didn't flinch away as the water flecked at her. She said,

"You said to give you a surprise sometime?" However, she seemed to be looking at him with concern. "You alright, wetness aside?"

It wasn't quite the same as pulling an umbrella out from someone already wet.

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Mirai's lips dribbled with water - which slid down his chin - and it did fall to the ground. He could feel some blinding him, so he first wiped his left hand on his trouser leg, then used the back of it to soak the water from his eyes.

And though his mood and expression gave an uneasy feeling, it was lifted when the color of his eyes shone with a detached sort of curiosity.

"... Yeah. You do this to boys often?"

Haruka still looked a bit concerned, her head turned in his direction attentively, but she relaxed slightly as some of that feeling she was feeling lifted a little,

"Not really?" She replied. "It would be a bit weird to try and get every boy I know wet. So special case?"

There definitely seemed to be something angry behind Mirai's eyes, though. It was feral, observing and waiting till she made it clear what she wanted.

"Oh, you think so? I thought it was just a harmless spot of fun. Still, Kiri-chan? What makes you think I'm special?" he asked simply.

"Could be that too? I didn't have nefarious intents behind it at least," Haruka said, and she sounded and looked perfectly genuine.

"Also, I guess I'd only do it with friends?"

Mirai lightened up and gave a kind smile - which he seemed to have ready to go on his face before the remark had passed - and wrung some water out his hair.

"Ah nice," said Mirai. "I suppose we're special friends." "I've got some things I only do to special friends. You should treasure that."

Haruka tilted her head slightly, looking a bit bemused and genuinely curious.

"Huh. Special friends?" She seemed to think on that a moment before she asked, "Like what?"

"I would be perfectly willing to show you," Mirai replied - and his eyes seemed to gleam. It was good to fool people like this.

Haruka turned her head upwards. "Wow. This reminds me of many situations right now...."

However, she shrugged anyway.

"Sure, if you're willing?"

"In public? Really?" His voice began lightening, as much as it could. For he was feeling rather playful. "I was unaware you're that kind of girl, Kiri-chan."

He was entirely occupied with the thought of what they could get up to. So much that the sound of the water seemed to fade into the distance.

Haruka seemed to pause and think on that. This souned like one of those situations....

She shrugged and said, lightly,

"Huh. So you're that kind of guy?"

"Oh dear. You know my secret. I wonder how I should feel."

He spoke so dryly it was clear he wasn't guilty at all. The sound of water became audible again and he crossed his arms over his chest. "Yeah. I'm that kind of guy. When did I say I wasn't? Or... does it actually not bother you?"

"What a twist," she said, with a straight face. At the question, she turned her head upwards.

"Not really." She smirked a little. "I'd only be that kind of girl with certain boys anyway?"

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"... Yeah. I guess."

Mirai was finding Haruka more interesting but very much less innocent. A mean sense of humour, he thought - which meant he found himself having a rising respect for her.

"Would you do more than push them in a stream?"

"Probably?" She replied. She didn't appear too bothered or ruffled by the turn of topic. Or if they were even talking about the same one.

"The many different things you do with different certain people."

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As it went Mirai was looking like he was in thought about the different things he could do to different people. He looked amused and totally unconcerned.

"... Hmmm. I wonder what you get from it," he began saying. "Do you have a reason? Or is it a bit of fun?"

"Depends on the sort of thing I'm doing and who with?" Haruka said, with a slight shrug. "It could be fun and have other meanings attached to it.

"What about you, senpai?"

"It's a secret," said Mirai, half-closing his eyes to stare at Haruka. He began to quietly ponder what it was he enjoyed doing for the same reasons.